Rhythmic Lead Guitar - Solo Phrasing, Groove and Timing for All Styles: Musicians Institute Private Lessons Kindle Edition

After reading Rhythmic Lead guitar, I am twice the lead player I was this time last week. I must confess, I am not painstakingly going through the book and doing all of the exercises, but let me briefly tell about the insight this book has given me. I am a pretty good chord-tone guy (check out Barrett's Chord-Tone Soloing book), and unlike most pretenders, I do reasonably well over diatonic progressions, especially major key stuff. My problem was really the opposite of most players--my theory is rock solid and my fretboard mastery is good--but for some reason unknown to me, my phrasing was always a choppy train wreck when it came to everyday minor pentatonic wanking. Well, no more. Rhythmic Lead Guitar made me really sit down and analyze the different available beat subdivisions, and it also helped me realize the differences between a shuffle (my band plays a lot of three-chord boogies) and a straight feel, and more specifically, between straight and swung 8th notes. I have a Fender G-Dec amp and first practiced all of these subdivisions with a metronome at different tempos and then practiced soloing over a looped shuffle for hours. Like a lightbulb coming on after 15 years of frustration, I literally and figuratively found my groove like a seasoned pro. I think I had been trying to play straight eighth notes over shuffles, and my use of triplets was underutilized. From there, I moved on to songs with a straight feel, which too have always given me fits. My main problem with these songs is that my 8th-note phrasing stunk because I tried to use too many notes. I thought great players just "played faster" than the rest of us. Well, they do, but I realize now that it is all about fitting those faster notes into each beat in a rhythmically even way. Another side effect of analyzing different beat subdivisions is that when playing fast triplets or sixteenth notes (still very difficult) that could only be accomplished with hammer-ons and pull-offs, I was forced to examine all of my pentatonic boxes for different options, and within a day, I was seeing and connecting all of the shapes like never before. Unbelievable! Some of the material in this book is beyond my scope and my interest, but by just focusing on the beat subdivisions (and hearing examples of them) and by learning the difference between a swung eighth note and a regular one, I have started on the fast track to becoming the lead guitar player I have always wanted to be. Thank you very much, Barrett.

This is my 3rd book by Barrett Tagliarino and is a perfect compliment to his other two. This book will help you tremendously with Rhythmic phrasing and syncopation by following simple examples by the author. This book also helps you develop your timing not only through your ear but by using your whole body as well. You will learn how to breathe properly as well as sync the tapping of your foot with the beat so that your body can always recognize where you are in relation to the music. I've always been amazed at how the greats can pull off a rapid flurry of melodic notes and smoothly land on time with the perfect note. This book can help you achieve that (along with Chord Tone soloing for the perfect note part).The Author always has a way of giving you small building blocks to digest and before you know it you look back and realize that he's helped you build a solid foundation and you are left to unleashing creativity without limits. IMHO He is without a doubt the best guitar lesson author that i have come across. He has an ability to break things down for you into bite size, easily digestible chunks and once you delve deep enough into the book, you'll realize how much progress you've made.Honestly, if you are like me and have always wondered why the scales that you play over and over just don't sound right when your trying to play and in comes your buddy "Joe Shred" and has this sense of timing that you think you have to be born with, pick up this book and you'll see that with some discipline and hard work you can learn it like any other aspect of the guitar.I'm currently working through this book and already can hear, play and feel music in a different light. If you have played the guitar for years without getting far or are a beginner who has the basics down, you will be doing the best thing for yourself by picking up this book as well as Chord Tone Soloing and The Guitar Fretboard Workbook. I can't even begin to describe what those books have done for me as well. These three books will take you really far and separate you from being the average "bedroom" guitarist to being able to hang with the professionals. Money well spent in my opinion.

I've purchased another of Tagliarino's guitar methods, "Guitar Fretboard Workbook," a year ago, purely based on customers' reviews on Amazon and other sites. (I'm somewhat of a beginner at guitar theory.) The method proved to be very effective for me, providing simple, sensible music theory and guitar explanations on "mapping" a guitar fretboard and recommendations for exercises that do help you increase your playing skills. Tagliarino seems to be right on target: master "mapping" the fretboard, and your guitar playing and music theory, for that matter, takes off, obviously depending on your perseverance. And Tagliarino provides plenty of incentive for you to persevere. I now look forward to sitting down and practicing playing my guitar all the time. I recently received Tagliarino's Rhythmic Lead Guitar, and right from the beginning, I can see that the same sensible, straight-forward teaching methodology was used. It will not replace a guitar instructor, but it will provide a more solid foundation to help build your understanding and skills, saving you money on guitar lessons, pushing the guitar lessons to when you really need them, when things get complicated. I highly recommend both methods if you are a beginner to intermediate guitar player seeking to better understand the fretboard and build/improve your playing skills. It's a small investment for big returns, as long as you are willing to work hard on it. Hope this helps.

Working through the rhythm excersises has really helped me master faster tempos and count beats when playing. People should start with this book to learn soloing!

Una delusione più che per il contenuto per il fatto che non c'è traccia di file multimediali (tracce AUDIO o VIDEO)...ho acquistato la versione Kindle ma i contenuti audio e video annunciati non ci sono, almeno non per la lettura dal PC, io non dispongo del lettore... almeno ci fosse la possibilità di scaricarli da qualche link in rete...

Endlich mal ein Lehrbuch, das sich mit zwei Grundproblemen des Solospiels beschäftigt: Wie baue ich ein Solo auf und wie bekomme ich es rhytmisch gut hin. In diesem Buch wird langsam erklärt, wie man Rhythmus hinbekommt und wie man dann ein Solo aufbaut. Für mich ist es das erste Werk, das dies in solch einer Ausführlichkeit hinbekommt.Das Buch ist in englischer Sprache geschrieben, was aber mit Schulenglisch gut zu bewältigen ist. Alle Beispiele sind auich noch auif einer CD zu finden, so dass das Üben nicht schwerfällt. Für mich ist es zu einem Standardwerk geworden.

A great resource. Be prepared to take some time with this it is well worth it.

I picked up the guitar fretboard workbook(get hal leonard's music theory for guitarists instead) and liked it a lot less than this book of Barrett's. It's got a tonne of great info and exercises on a neglected area of music theory. I have never come across a comparable book. Although it's meant for guitar and uses guitar tablature, it applies to all instruments. If you're not a guitarist, there are probably books just as detailed that are written for your instrument.